Project Grant 2025338

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $174,049 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212) grant to Cache Environmental Laboratories, P.C. to develop a low-cost, biochar-based electrochemical device for rapid and accurate detection of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) in rural water supplies. The portable pollutant detection device utilizes inexpensive lignin-based...

Federal Grant Award Summary Wave Lumina Inc. received a $305,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), effective May 15, 2025 through April 30, 2026. The awardee will develop a portable field screening device for rapid detection of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water environments. The device integrates surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Foundation Instruments Inc. received a $618,570 SBIR Phase I project grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health program (CFDA 93.113), awarded September 1, 2025, with completion targeted by August 31, 2026. The grant funds the development and feasibility evaluation of an affordable, on-site HAA-Meter—an innovative analytical device designed to enable real-time monitoring of haloacetic acids...

Coflux Purification, Inc. received a $175,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212), awarded September 1, 2025, with completion targeted for April 30, 2026. The company is developing a field-ready water treatment reactor designed to address per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination in agricultural areas and rural watersheds. The technology...

This $298,143 National Science Foundation project grant will support the development of a portable instrument for measuring poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) by the University of Texas at Arlington from September 2022 through August 2025. PFAS are man-made chemicals used in firefighting foams and cleaning products that accumulate in the environment and pose health risks. Typically analyzed using expensive laboratory equipment, this new portable instrument aims to reliably measure...

Aqua Science LLC received a $1.23M Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) effective June 1, 2025, through May 31, 2027. This Phase II SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) project focuses on developing and commercializing an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the rapid detection of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water. The ELISA technology will serve as a cost-effective...

This $499,988 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) seeks to develop and validate an integrated sorption-photocatalytic process for the ex-situ treatment and remediation of groundwater contaminated by mixtures of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and chlorinated solvents like trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethylene (PCE). The principal investigator and research team at Southern Illinois University Carbondale will...

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $275,000 Project Grant to Water Illumination Inc., a small minority-owned business, to develop a tunable deep ultraviolet (UV)-based technology for the destruction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water. This grant, funded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, aims to create a cost-effective, chemical-free water treatment system capable of nearly complete PFAS elimination without...

Federal Grant Award Summary Framergy Inc., in collaboration with Texas A&M University, received a $260,993 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health program (CFDA 93.113), effective June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2026. The award supports development of a novel at-home detection method for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water. The project leverages metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and...

The National Science Foundation awarded Aqua Science LLC a $255,751 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) for detecting per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in soil and water. The grant period runs from April 15, 2022 through March 31, 2023. Under this award, Aqua Science will develop novel ELISAs to detect perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), two prevalent...